Anastasius II or Anastasios II could refer to:

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

The word originally could refer to any small boat ; the modern meaning arose around 1480.

The term was also championed by Doug Engelbart to refer to his belief that organizations could better evolve by improving the process they use for improvement ( thus obtaining a compounding effect over time ).

That this go ’ el could refer to God is explicitly demonstrated in the Psalms and Proverbs, and elsewhere.

By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.

Christian persecution could refer to:

Rhetorically Eusebius records the Oracle as saying " The just on Earth ..." These impious, Diocletian was informed by members of the court, could only refer to the Christians of the Empire.

He says that he has acquired shida we-shidot, an ambiguous phrase that may refer to a harem ( shdh or " breasts "); he describes how he could not find a virtuous woman ; and he exhorts the reader to enjoy ( re ' a ) life with his wife.

The central dispute in the letter concerns the question of how Gentiles could convert to Christianity, which shows that this letter was written at a very early stage in church history, when the vast majority of Christians were Jewish or Jewish proselytes, which historians refer to as the Jewish Christians.

However, in 1971 Erik Hornung pointed out that the traits of an apparently supreme being could be attributed to many different gods, even in periods when other gods were preeminent, and further argued that references to an unspecified " god " are meant to refer flexibly to any deity.

On the other hand, what some physicists refer to as " apparent " or " effective " FTL depends on the hypothesis that unusually distorted regions of spacetime might permit matter to reach distant locations in less time than light could in normal or undistorted spacetime.

Commonly in reference to Finland's policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but could refer to similar international relations, such as Denmark's attitude toward Germany between 1871 and 1940, and Taiwan's relation with China since 2008.

Yet, Cicero could also refer to his popularist opponent Clodius, publicly and scathingly, as a bustuarius – literally, a " funeral-man ", implying that Clodius has shown the moral temperament of the lowest sort of gladiator.

Depending on the context, the term could refer to a person in any one of several distinct ( but not completely disjointed ) communities and subcultures:

The term Heracleidae, although it could refer to all of Heracles ' children and further descendants, is most commonly used to indicate the descendants of Hyllus, in the context of their lasting struggle for return to Peloponnesus, out of where Hyllus and his brothers-the children of Heracles by Deianeira-were thought to have been expelled by Eurystheus.

So " Elohim " could refer to any number of " rulers ", such as angels, false gods ( as defined by Torah ), or even human holders of power including rulers or judges within Israel, as described in, without violating the parameters of monotheism.

Often, slashes are used to signal broad or phonemic transcription ; thus, is less specific than, and could refer to, either or depending on the context and language.

The Amstrad PCW's bundled word processing software, LocoScript, used the term " in limbo " to refer to files which had been deleted but which could still be restored, a concept similar to that later implemented by the Trash in the Apple Macintosh and the Recycle Bin in Microsoft Windows 95.

The word masochism could refer to:

A manometer could also refer to a pressure measuring instrument, usually limited to measuring pressures near to atmospheric.

A transaction could refer to a set of operations including disk read / writes, operating system calls, or some form of data transfer from one subsystem to another.

In theory, " music history " could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music ( e. g., the history of Indian music or the history of rock ).

Numeral systems are sometimes called number systems, but that name is ambiguous, as it could refer to different systems of numbers, such as the system of real numbers, the system of complex numbers, the system of p-adic numbers, etc.

Oxfordians say the first of these phrases could refer to one of Edward de Vere's manors, Bilton, near the Forest of Arden, in Rugby, on the River Avon.

During the Avengers vs. X-Men storyline, the event has the Phoenix Force returning to Earth, presumably to reclaim Hope Summers, the " Mutant Messiah ", which will lead to a confrontation between the Avengers and the X-Men on how to deal with its arrival, with the Avengers anticipating the destruction that the Phoenix could bring while Cyclops hopes to use the Phoenix Force to restart the mutant population.

Tertullus presumably could not use the Antioch term Christianoi ( Hebrew Meshiykhiyyim משיחיים ‎) since Christianoi from Greek Christos ( literally " Anointed One ", " Messiah ") might imply Tertullus ' recognition of Jesus of Nazareth as a Davidic " Anointed One ," or " Messiah.

* That he was convinced of the importance of his fulfilling the role perfectly ( after all prophesy and expectation ), and that he could not allow himself to fail, as that would undoubtedly lead to his being declared a false Messiah.

Handel's awkward, repeated stressing of the fourth syllable of " incorruptible " may have been the source of the 18th century poet William Shenstone's comment that he " could observe some parts in Messiah wherein Handel's judgements failed him ; where the music was not equal, or was even opposite, to what the words required ".

It is also said that one of these 36 could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for them to reveal themselves.

" Regarding his holiness, the Baal Shem Tov also reputedly said that if Dovber had not been lame, and had been able to ritually immerse in the mikvah, then he could have been able to bring the Mashiach ( Messiah ).

He taught the general Hasidic concept of the tzaddik ha-dor ( tzadik of the generation or era ), which is the idea that in every generation, a special, saintly person is born who could potentially become the Jewish Messiah if conditions were right in the world.

Orthodox non-Zionists believed that the return to Israel could only happen with the coming of the Messiah, and that a political attempt to re-establish a Jewish state was contrary to God's plan.

Only when this belief was refuted could his claim to be the Messiah be discussed.

In reply, Mongke explained that he really wished his subjects to truly worship Messiah but he could not force the Mongols and other civilians to change their religion.

" In his best selling Doctrinal New Testament Commentaries and Messiah series, the sources that are most frequently cited as authority for his interpretational positions are other works authored by himself .< ref name =" Buerger "> He explained, " I would never quote another man unless I could first square what he said with the scriptures and unless he said what was involved better than I could.

The Messiah could not appear till Jews existed in all the lands of the earth.

He had finished Messiah in the summer of 1741 and at most he could only have added minor touches to the work in Parkgate.

Herbert does not explain how the Scytale of Messiah — a Face Dancer, though autonomous — could ascend to become a Master, or how the Master-Face Dancer relationship may have evolved over the millennia.

The Vilna Gaon, who was himself steeped in both Talmudic and Kabbalistic wisdom, analyzed the theological underpinnings of this new " Hasidism " and in his view, concluded that it was deeply flawed since it had elements of what may be roughly termed as panentheism and perhaps even outright pantheism, dangerous aspirations for bringing the Jewish Messiah that could easily be twisted in unpredictable directions for Jewry as had previously happened with the Zevi and Frank religious " revival " fiascos, and an array of complex rejections of their religious ideology.

Drews in The Witness to the Historicity of Jesus says " brother " could have just mean the James referred to here belonged to a sect that venerated a Messiah called Jesus.

Another view popular for a time ( for example, see Dostoyevsky's The Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov ) was that the devil wasn't so much tempting Jesus as presenting him with the different options he could take to be a Messiah, and making him choose one.